1553 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1553.

Events

 * none listed

Publications

 * Francesco Bendusi – Opera nova di balli for four (Venice: Antonio Gardano), a collection of dance music
 * Baldassare Donato – First book of madrigals for five and six voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Jhan Gero – 40 Madrigals for three voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Jacquet of Mantua – Motets for five voices (Venice: Antonio Gardano)
 * Vicente Lusitano – Introduttione facilissima, et novissima, di canto fermo, figurato, contraponto semplice, et in concerto, con regole generali per far fughe differenti sopra il canto fermo, a 2, 3, et 4 voci, et compositioni, proportioni, generi. s. diatonico, cromatico, enarmonico (Rome)
 * Guillaume de Morlaye
 * first collection for lute
 * Second book of guitar tablature (Paris: Michel Fezendat)
 * Diego Ortiz
 * Trattado de glossas sobre clausulas y otros generos de puntos en la musica de violones nuevamente puestos en luz, 10 December, Rome (Spanish edition)
 * Glose sopra le cadenze et altre sorte de punti in la musica del violone, 10 December, Rome (Italian edition of Trattado de glossas)

Births

 * October 18? – Luca Marenzio (c.1553), Italian composer (d. 1599)
 * date unknown – Johannes Eccard, German composer and kapellmeister (d. 1611)
 * probable – Leonhard Lechner, German composer (d. 1606)

Deaths

 * February 4 – Caspar Othmayr, German Protestant pastor, theologian and composer (b. 1515)
 * October 7 – Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. 1500)
 * date unknown
 * Mateo Flecha, Catalan composer (b. 1481)
 * Mattio Rampollini, Italian composer (b. 1497)